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Re: What language would you love to learn?

If I wasn't such a lazy lazypants I'd get up to speed with Hindi. But as it is, I pull out my books over some coffee once in a while and read a paragraph or two. I utterly lack discipline.

Bactrian Camel

The worst thing...is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.--e.o. wilson

Re: What language would you love to learn?

Better, more advanced modern Greek, because my father was a first generation immigrant (all his family is still there)and it was easier for us to have a working understanding of it (so we did about four years of elementary Greek at Holy Trinity "Socrates" Greek School) and got the gist of simple, village (chordiatiko, yes like the salad) vernacular (the basolect, if you will.) The highly-educated Athenian arcolect spoken on the news still goes way above my head. (They call this cosmopolitan Demotic [of the people, the demos,] but to me, it might as well still be Katharevousa or ancient Attic!)

I'd also like to retry my hand at Español, I was flipping fine on present tense...then we started on "preterito" the past tense, and my brain just went to jelly! My goodness, I was thoroughly mind-f*cked after that year was over.

And lastly, I have always been jealous of those who took French (and Eastern Canadians), as I was trying to realistic and decided Spanish was more practical here in the lower forty-eight...well, I should have done it as I still have a huge desire to know la langue d'oil! Je suis tre triste!

Re: What language would you love to learn?

Originally Posted by JockBoy87

That would be a cool one and not too hard being the root of Romance languages. Though it is heavily inflected for cases.

Emm , i must be daft then because i found Latin a very hard language to learn . mainly because it is classed as a dead language .
If you want to hear Latin as it should be heard then "regardless of religion" listen to The Benedictine Monks singing , truly amazing..

Re: What language would you love to learn?

Originally Posted by medic1

If you want to hear Latin as it should be heard then "regardless of religion" listen to The Benedictine Monks singing , truly amazing..

I did a little latin in school - just for fun, lol. Anyhoo, the letter c was always a hard k sound in classical latin. In church latin, c was more like a ch sound - I got this from being in a choir - we performed Orff's Carmina Burana, and were directed to pronounce it as ch in most cases. I assume Benedictine gregorian chant like sounds are church latin pronunciation...